Bob Dylan looks like a legend in Barcelona – El Universal

The magnetism and talent of Bob Dylan have caught the public intergenerational met today in the Jardines de Pedralbes in Barcelona, ​​where Minnesota has offered a concert without concessions to nostalgia, during which he has focused on his compositions of the past decade.

Even though many of these have paid between 70 and 185 euros attracted by the opportunity to see up close the legendary author of “Like a rolling stone “and listen to live their generational anthems, the troubadour has not been influenced by the presumed expectations of your audience and has locked up the best-known songs of the past to focus on the present.

A present full of great songs that sound like blues to rock to country and, above all, to himself, who with 50 years on stage and 36 studio albums has had time to demonstrate amply that is among the largest of all time.

The 74-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman has been presented to the public select the Pedralbes Gardens Festival in better shape than when he visited Barcelona for the last time five years ago.

It has come on the scene with a white wide-brimmed white hat and a clear plan, and has been at the center of the stage, standing, surrounded by five magnificent musicians who accompany him.

inarticulate, Dylan has given neither good night, but has managed to connect with the present through his very personal raspy voice and his mastery as a composer and performer.

The first theme was ” Things Have Changed “, a beautiful song he wrote in 2000 for the film” Wonder Boys She belongs to me “” and has sung almost motionless.

After the turn has come, “one of the few classics of the golden age that has been included in the repertoire tonight.

In this song, Bob Dylan has sounded his harmonica, and with it has come the magic of the beautiful outdoor scenery . Pedralbes Gardens

Although supposedly Dylan is touring to present his album “Shadows in the Night” (2015), has only played two songs on this album: Frank versions Sinatra “Full Moon and Empty Arms” and “Autumm leaves”, the latter of Yves Montand shirt.

The bulk of the repertoire songs have formed “Tempest” (2012), last studio album material unpublished, which have sounded half of its cuts.

With a steady pace, the American bard has shelled his repertoire throughout a concert of just over an hour and a half, during which only She has led to the public once to say “soon become” just before leaving the stage 20 minutes, for intermission.

During the second part, the legendary troubadour has alternated his voice broken with harmonica and piano, and has shown more relaxed, even to walk gracefully across the stage and make some subtle body movement.

But the peak reached in the encore with “Blowing in the wind “The only concession to nostalgia that made and that, in fact, can not be considered as such because the recreation of the issue that has offered nothing to do with the song that played the very young Dylan as a couple Joan Baez .

The concert ended with the audience standing and Bob Dylan leave with the head of a public who knew Dylan’s past and today has experienced its present.

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